The philosophy for scheduling ice is to be as fair and as equitable as possible to each team under the Southwest Hockey umbrella.

There are many domino effects to scheduling ice for close to 50 teams. Once the game schedule is released from Hockey Calgary, several hours are spent reviewing games and generating practices. This review includes MANY checks and balances to ensure teams with the same age division receive a similar number of hours on the ice, shared vs. full practices, and a similar number of early & late starts (as close as we can possibly get).

Our goal for the U7 to U18 age groups is to get close to the ratio recommended by Hockey Canada of 2.5 practices to every 1 game for U7 and U9, and a practice to game ratio of 2:1 for U11 to U18 throughout the season. 

Generally the younger Age Divisions are scheduled on 'earlier ice' and older Age Divisions are scheduled on 'later ice'.